Sentences Like This Are Why Following Domelights Pays Off

Oh boy, I wish I was an investigative reporter looking to do a story on police brutality and I read a PUBLIC forum like domelights and I read a thread started by a cop who claims officers are lumping people up instead of using a taser to minimize injury.

That’s from this thread about Tasers on Domelights. It’s actually been a good read for a lot of reasons recently, with public bickering with the union and this thread with two cops arguing. All worth a perusal.

Broad Street Bullies, Vol. 2

I took a ton of videos on Wednesday night, but the best two were back-to-back. There was the car-flipping I posted yesterday; above is the video I took a minute or so later.

So, um, since when did Mega Man give up his arm gun and switch to batons? That doesn’t seem like the best way to defeat the evil Dr. Wily and his robot masters!

Internet Comments, Summarized

Damn: Two highway police officers shot in North Philadelphia near Broad and Diamond. One is in critical condition; the gunman is dead.

Yeah. So that’s not fun. But there’s a lesson here as well: Let’s take a look at the first three comments on the Action News story:

This is pretty much the only three kinds of comments on news stories nowadays: Not-so-subtly racist ones (comment 1), oddly naive responses to previous racist ones (comment 2) and absolute nonsensical ones complaining that soap operas — in this case, One Life to Live and/or All My Children — were pre-empted for a few minutes (comment 3).

Reader Joe writes: “The article says it happened at 1:45, so the story probably went up around 2. The first comment is at 2:06. I think commenter 3 was watching TV and his program was interrupted — so he went online with the specific intention of complaining about the show being bumped.” He also notes that commenter 3 refers to a double-police shooting as a “slow news day.” Man, who needs to be shot to impress that person? “How dare they interrupt Days of Our Lives to tell me the Pope was shot!”

Update: One of the officers has died.

2 officers shot in North Philadelphia [6 ABC]

Breaking: Phila. Residents With Connections Get Perks

Back when Dan Rubin ran Blinq as a daily blog, everybody read his posts no matter how good or bad they were because he was, for better or worse, the Philadelphia paper of record’s official blogger. Then a while back they pulled him off the blog full-time and gave him a column. Now nobody under the age of 35 reads his stuff anymore, because while they know he writes one of the paper’s metro columns, they can never be bothered to find the thing on the website.

Well, well, well! Rubin wrote a column yesterday that quite a few people read. Specifically, police officers read his column. To be more specific, the kinds of police officers (and cop wannabes) who post on Domelights read his column. Don’t get too excited at once; the media in this town is still too terrified to write about any actual problems with our local cops. No, Rubin wrote about the free parking cops get at sporting events down at the sports complex.

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